AS hard-nosed copper DCI Frank Burnside in The Bill, actor Chris Ellison was famous for his terse one-liners. But now Chris, 75, has been cast into a twilight world with the same speech debilitating illness as Hollywood action movie Bruce Willis.
The decision of Die Hard actor Bruce, 67, to reveal his aphasia has inspired Chris, 75, to share his own diagnosis, which only a few family and friends knew about.
Aphasia is when parts of the brain to do with language are damaged and it can sometimes strike after a stroke or head injury.
Chris’s wife Anita, 69, told The Sun on Sunday: “It’s awful, we’ve been so lonely. Chris is trapped in his body. He can understand everything going on around him but can’t speak, read or write. “He has not uttered any sense in 18 months.
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